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Article #106180Re: New ruling could eventually lead to blocking of used game sales
From: Dimensional Traveler
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 18:17
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 18:17
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On 9/18/2010 7:14 AM, Insane Ranter wrote: > On Sep 18, 5:30 am, Tim O<timo56...@hotmail.com> wrote: >> I'm expecting digital downloads to be the trend rather than this. They >> pretty much gut the resale aspect, and the thing really holding them >> back is that limited size of console hard drives. I'd expect next gen >> console systems (I know there really aren't any officially in the >> pipe) to have huge hard drives. They've gone from being a data >> buffer/save game tool in consoles to a true storage medium just like >> in a PC. > > This idea just makes me go why not just make everything for PC and > screw the whole console idea. Agreed. From what I understand consoles are basically just PCs with "simplified for idiots" user interfaces. Streaming video, web surfing, email, etc. are all touted features/abilities for consoles now. The only significant difference seems to be that you use your TV as a monitor instead of a higher resolution monitor. -- "There's something that doesn't make sense. Let's go and poke it with a stick."
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!news-xfer.nntp.sonic.net!posts.news.sonic.net!nnrp1.nntp.sonic.net!not-for-mail Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 11:17:25 -0700 From: Dimensional Traveler <dtr...@sonic.net> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100915 Thunderbird/3.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.space-sim Subject: Re: New ruling could eventually lead to blocking of used game sales References: <6b63a4e0-6655-46f4-8e3d-d507931ef1c9@k1g2000prl.googlegroups.com> <649a2147-b375-44d6-aac5-da1f51059a0c@s17g2000prh.googlegroups.com> <bb0996ticdlrdobnv60g7s70podt0s76ss@4ax.com> <6d7024ff-bb7b-4f3b-b9f8-c3dda1d563dd@u13g2000vbo.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <6d7024ff-bb7b-4f3b-b9f8-c3dda1d563dd@u13g2000vbo.googlegroups.com> Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4c950234$0$1662$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net> Organization: Sonic.Net NNTP-Posting-Date: 18 Sep 2010 18:17:24 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: a8f90820.news.sonic.net X-Trace: DXC=b3SQ8KX`M219TAhkNi\E4;m4K\QM1CV^01OYf0H`?;X1QbI9\=H=3K>c4h__dCA6@:A@TY;dR@BK1Vc9=<oX^o:: X-Complaints-To: ab...@sonic.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit